Resisting Racism and Xenophobia

Faye V. Harrison is Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and chair of the IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women.

• 1 Introduction: Global Perspectives on Human Rights and Interlocking Inequalities of Race, Gender and Related Dimensions of Power2 PART I. A Post-Durban and Post-September 11 View From the South3 Ch. 1: Finding Strategic Identities in an Unequal World: Feminist Reflections From India4 PART II: Gendered Communities in Crisis and Struggle5 Ch. 2: Metaphors of Race and Caste-Based Discriminations Against Dalits and Dalit Women in India6 Ch. 3: Margins of Democracy: Aboriginal Australians and Inequality7 Ch. 4: Desperately Seeking Justice: Women of Color in Springfield, Missouri and Their Quest for Civil and Human Rights8 Ch. 5: Welfare Reform, Racism, and Single Motherhood in the Americas9 PART III: Sexual Matters in Work, Health, and Ethnonational Politics10 Ch. 6: Structurally Adjusted Intercourse: Exoticized Sex Workers and Anthropological Agency11 Ch. 7: Intersections of Gender, Race, and HIV/AIDS in Africa12 Ch. 8: The Role of Zanzibari Women in the Human Rights Conflict with Tanzania over Sovereignty13 PART IV: New Diasporas: Refugees and Immigrants14 Ch. 9: The Second Coming: African Women as a Racialized Transmigrant Group in a Canadian Context15 Ch. 10: Weaving Identities: Refugees, Immigrants, and Local People in a European World of Differences16 Ch. 11: My Country in Translation17 PART V: Negotiating Diversity & the War on Terrorism18 Ch. 12: Diversity Training Doesn't Get to the Heart of the Matter19 Ch. 13: What Democracy Looks Like: The Politics of a Women-Centered, Anti-Racist Human Rights Coalition20 Ch. 14: Confronting Hegemony, Resisting Occupation